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Flash Memory: Devices
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The Philips device comes equipped with enough capacity on a removable flash memory card to play about one hour of digital-quality music. The device has no moving parts: which means no skipping, even during sports activities like skateboarding, aerobics, bicycling, and jogging. The player will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2000.
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Common flash memory parts (individual internal components or "chips") range widely in capacity from kilobits to several gigabits each. Multiple chips are often arrayed to achieve higher capacities for use in devices such as the iPod nano or SanDisk Sansa e200. The capacity of flash chips generally follows Moore's Law because they are produced with the same processes used to manufacture other integrated circuits. However, there have ... been jumps beyond Moore's Law due to innovations in technology.
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Executing from FLASH memory ... works just like executing from any other type of memory. Your FLASH device (and the code it contains) start at a specific address. When you create a program that is loaded into FLASH for execution you may be required to relocate that code when programming the device (for example, upload to XDATA/RAM then write into FLASH).
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"Flash memory prices appear to be going up on the whole." As evidence, he cited flash memory orders for new applications like players, gaming devices and other digital consumer appliances. Those orders are expected to be concentrated in the latter half of this year.
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Here is an out-of-the-box solution for turning those high capacity Compact Flash memory cards into SATA hard drives. The CF to SATA hard drive adapter is ideal for using CF as a bootable device containing OS or application data.
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Next-generation memories--such as FRAM, MRAM, PCM and others--are supposed to replace today's DRAMs and flash memory technologies. Current memory devices are expected to hit the wall, as the floating-gate reaches its physical limits. Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics Inc.
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